Over the mounds stood the nettles in pride,
And, where no fine flowers, there kind weeds dared to wave;
It seemed but as
yesterday
she lay by my side,
And now my dog ate of the grass on her grave.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Beside thy banks, O river fair,
I grew in tender nursing care
From
childhood
unto maidenhood!
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Aeschylus |
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"
He heard her speak and
accepted
her words with favor.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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" men shall ask,
When the world is old, and time
Has
accomplished
without haste
The strange destiny of men.
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Sappho |
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Hart was the
originator
of the Project
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Yeats |
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Who better can the way to heaven aread,
Then thou thy selfe, that was both borne and bred 455
In
heavenly
throne, where thousand Angels shine?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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urge him to bestow
Whatever
pity that stern heart can know.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Like her i' the chase
Who drave a dart into her lover, embowered,
Piercing the incense-clouds, the popular shaft
May slay thee in a random shot at
Tyranny!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It's as if I began to build in the ocean depths
A
thousand
tombs: to vanish still virgin there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Quis ego pro factis
caelesti
reddita coetu
Pristina vota novo munere dissoluo.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Or le bagna la pioggia e move il vento
di fuor dal regno, quasi lungo 'l Verde,
dov' e' le
trasmuto
a lume spento.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Autumn foliage,
brightness
of, 249-252.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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my
nostrils
drink the lives of mMen
[[line]]
The Villages Lament.
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Blake - Zoas |
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LXXVI
Ye have heard how Marsyas,
In the folly of his pride,
Boasted of a matchless skill,--
When the great god's back was turned;
How his fond imagining 5
Fell to ashes cold and grey,
When the flawless player came
In
serenity
and light.
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Sappho |
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'But for as moche as man and wyf
Shuld shewe hir paroche-prest hir lyf
Ones a yeer, as seith the book, 6385
Er any wight his housel took,
Than have I pryvilegis large,
That may of moche thing discharge;
For he may seye right thus, pardee:--
"Sir Preest, in shrift I telle it thee, 6390
That he, to whom that I am shriven,
Hath me assoiled, and me yiven
Penaunce
soothly, for my sinne,
Which that I fond me gilty inne;
Ne I ne have never entencioun 6395
To make double confessioun,
Ne reherce eft my shrift to thee;
O shrift is right y-nough to me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
"A new house does not suit, you know--
It's such a job to trim it:
But, after twenty years or so,
The
wainscotings
begin to go,
So twenty is the limit.
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Lewis Carroll |
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for we are
betrayed!
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Whitman |
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"
And the whippoorwill, Wawonaissa,
Sobbing, said, "O Chibiabos,
Teach me tones as melancholy,
Teach me songs as full of
sadness!
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Longfellow |
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I did but smile,
As one who winks; and
thereupon
the shade
Broke off, and peer'd into mine eyes, where best
Our looks interpret.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Saint Gabriel the Lord to him hath sent,
Whom as a guard o'er the
Emperour
he set;
Stood all night long that angel by his head.
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Chanson de Roland |
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His answer to the
offensive
production flows with anger, and is harsh
even to abusiveness.
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Petrarch |
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Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed,
There but wild oats and barren darnel spring;
For tender violet and
narcissus
bright
Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Some would plunge those limbs
On fire with bane into the icy streams,
Hurling the body naked into the waves;
Many would
headlong
fling them deeply down
The water-pits, tumbling with eager mouth
Already agape.
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Lucretius |
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I
used to give them to the person I was
experimenting
with, and tell him
to hold them to his forehead without looking at them; and sometimes I
made a mistake.
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Yeats |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Beschaut
es recht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
Took the olifant, that he would not let go,
Struck him on th' helm, that
jewelled
was with gold,
And broke its steel, his skull and all his bones,
Out of his head both the two eyes he drove;
Dead at his feet he has the pagan thrown:
After he's said: "Culvert, thou wert too bold,
Or right or wrong, of my sword seizing hold!
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Chanson de Roland |
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, _fate,
appointed
time_: acc.
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Beowulf |
|
CHORUS
How left thee then Apollo's wrath
unscathed?
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Aeschylus |
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It had been
declared
by an ancient
oracle that Nineveh could never be taken unless the river became an
enemy to the city.
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Byron |
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You haggard, uncouth,
untutored
Bedowee!
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Whitman |
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The noble peer he begged, upon his knees,
His
penitence
to hear, and sentence ease.
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La Fontaine |
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]
[Variant 3:
Our earth is no doubt made of
excellent
stuff,
But her pulses beat slower and slower,
The weather in Forty was cutting and rough,
And then, as Heaven knows, the glass stood low enough,
And _now_ it is four degrees lower.
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William Wordsworth |
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Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law
entitled
him.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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They blossom, ripen and they fall
And others rise
ephemeral!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
|
3, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
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liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The subject, then, as the
epic poet uses it, will
obviously
be an important one.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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430
He heard the
monitory
growl;
Heard--and in opposition quaffed
A deep, determined, desperate draught!
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Vitellius
himself could not even
cope with success, and disaster had positively paralysed him.
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Tacitus |
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Then
household
deities at home he sought,
Where--not at prayers his beauteous dame he caught:
He'd left her, truly, quite dissolv'd in tears;
But now the belle had bid adieu to fears;
And oft was dancing joyously around,
With all the company that could be found.
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La Fontaine |
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Spring's an
expansive
time: yet I don't trust
March with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
One frost may wither through the sunless hours.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Her orientest colours there,
And essences most pure,
With sweetest
perfumes
hoarded were,
All, as she thought, secure,
III.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Go, throng each other's drawing-rooms,
Ye idols of a petty clique:
Strut your brief hour in
borrowed
plumes,
And make your penny-trumpets squeak.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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'Tis thee,--myself,--that for myself I praise,
Painting
my age with beauty of thy days.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Behold This Swarthy Face
Behold this swarthy face, these gray eyes,
This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck,
My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm;
Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting kisses me lightly
on the lips with robust love,
And I on the
crossing
of the street or on the ship's deck give a
kiss in return,
We observe that salute of American comrades land and sea,
We are those two natural and nonchalant persons.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I wonder how the rich may feel, --
An
Indiaman
-- an Earl?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A damp and death-like odour from the hollow
--Where all must slumber--rises, yet I follow
Thy wafture still, which fire
enkindles
new
And Thy great love which ever watches true.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Thou
beholdest
him and art distracted(?
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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It was refurbished in the reign of Taizong and served as a summer palace during his reign and that of his
successor
Gaozong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And Theseus is to be
implored!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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ǣghwylc, 985, 988; (wæs)
ǣghwylc
ōðrum trȳwe,
_each one_ (of two) _true to the other_, 1166.
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Beowulf |
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_h_) G
2 _mamure_ a, idemque credo uoluisse scribam R(omani), in quo
_~_ quod super _-mu-_ fuerat
consulto
uidetur erasum
3 _pares_ Lachm.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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I
promised
Toffile to be cruel to them
For helping them be cruel once to him.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for
destruction
ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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That
witching
paleness, which with cloud of love
Veil'd her sweet smile, majestically bright,
So thrill'd my heart, that from the bosom's night
Midway to meet it on her face it strove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But over it all a pleasure went
Of carven delicate ornament,
Wreathing up like ravishment,
Mentioning in sculptures twined
The
blitheness
Love hath in his mind;
And like delighted senses were
The windows, and the columns there
Made the following sight to ache
As the heart that did them make.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Haughtiest
swans and peacocks swept west,
And, despite soft derivations,
Crossed the Appalachians,
And turned to blazing warrior souls
Of the forest,
Singing the ways
Of the Ancient of Days.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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10
Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,
In the late
afternoon
choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-kill'd game,
Falling asleep on the gather'd leaves with my dog and gun by my side.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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but with mine compare thou thine own state,
And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;
Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,
That have profan'd their scarlet ornaments
And seal'd false bonds of love as oft as mine,
Robb'd others' beds'
revenues
of their rents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
Thy age, great Caesar, has restored
To squalid fields the plenteous grain,
Given back to Rome's
almighty
Lord
Our standards, torn from Parthian fane,
Has closed Quirinian Janus' gate,
Wild passion's erring walk controll'd,
Heal'd the foul plague-spot of the state,
And brought again the life of old,
Life, by whose healthful power increased
The glorious name of Latium spread
To where the sun illumes the east
From where he seeks his western bed.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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From off the gateway's rusting iron asters,
5The birds take flight to far
sequestered
greens,
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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God when He's angry here with anyone,
His wrath is free from perturbation;
And when we think His looks are sour and grim,
The
alteration
is in us, not Him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
Tightening
its lusts and luxuries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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1:
AN
APARTMENT
IN THE CENCI PALACE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
"
Then a dream of great pomp rises o'er,
And it
conquers
the god that it bore,
Till a shout casts us down far beneath;
We so small, and so stript before death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Long time she walked through fields, and plain, and dale;
At length she gained a wood within a vale;
There met an aged man, who once might be,
Gay, airy, pleasing, blithe, gallant, and free,
But now a meagre skeleton was seen
The shadow only of what late he'd been:
Said she, good father, I have much desire
To be a saint: thither my hopes aspire;
I fain would merit reverence and prayer,
A festival have kept with anxious care;
What pleasure, ev'ry year, the palm in hand,
And, beaming round the head, a holy band,
Nice presents, flow'rs, and off'rings to receive
Your practice
difficult
must I believe?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
How I do fear myself, that am not worth
The least
indulgent
thought thy pen drops forth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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To hear our Gascon talk, no Sue
Nor Poll in town but that he knew;
With each he'd passed a
blissful
night
More to their own than his delight.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
]
[Footnote 4: The
expression
is Shakespeare's, 'Twelfth Night', v.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Quella medesma voce che paura
tolta m'avea del subito abbarbaglio,
di
ragionare
ancor mi mise in cura;
e disse: <
ti conviene schiarar: dicer convienti
chi drizzo l'arco tuo a tal berzaglio>>.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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non ego in excidium caeli
nascentia
bella
fulminis et flammis partus in matre sepultos,
non coniuratos reges Troiaque cadente
Hectora uenalem cineri Priamumque ferentem,
Colchida nec referam uendentem regna parentis
et lacerum fratrem stupro segetesque uirorum
taurorumque trucis flammas uigilemque draconem
et reducis annos auroque incendia facta
et male conceptos partus peiusque necatos;
septenosque duces ereptaque fulmine flammis
moenia Thebarum et uictam, quia uicerat, urbem
germanosque patris referam matrisque nepotis
natorumque epulas conuersaque sidera retro
ereptumque diem; nec Persica bella profundo
indicta et magna pontum sub classe latentem
inuersumque fretum terris, iter aequoris undis.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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what genius wild
Yet mighty, was
enclosed
within one simple child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Made
security
for a payment;
rendered liable for a debt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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That Emperour, rich Charles, lies asleep;
Dreams that he stands in the great pass of Size,
In his two hands his ashen spear he sees;
Guenes the count that spear from him doth seize,
Brandishes it and twists it with such ease,
That flown into the sky the
flinders
seem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
And on Sundays they rang the bells,
From Baptist and Evangelical and
Catholic
churches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
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Now the Land, with drying tears,
Counts him up his flocks of years,
"See," he says, "my
substance
grows;
Hundred-flocked my Herdsman goes,
Hundred-flocked my Herdsman stands
On the Past's broad meadow-lands,
Come from where ye mildly graze,
Black herds, white herds, nights and days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
"
To whom the Cretan: "Enter, and receive
The wonted weapons; those my tent can give;
Spears I have store, (and Trojan lances all,)
That shed a lustre round the
illumined
wall,
Though I, disdainful of the distant war,
Nor trust the dart, nor aim the uncertain spear,
Yet hand to hand I fight, and spoil the slain;
And thence these trophies, and these arms I gain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The passengers shrink together,
I enter
indelicately
into all their souls.
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Imagists |
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Her war poetry appears in the volume
entitled
_A Chant of
Love for England, and other Poems_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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ankeden god, & glade were,
And
avoweden
in ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Now, wha this tale o' truth shall read,
Ilk man and mother's son, take heed:
Whene'er to Drink you are inclin'd,
Or Cutty-sarks rin in your mind,
Think ye may buy the joys o'er dear;
Remember
Tam o' Shanter's mare.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Has he been here,
That blackguard, with some
insolence
to you?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Meanwhile we linger'd by the water's brink,
Like men, who, musing on their road, in thought
Journey, while
motionless
the body rests.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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--c) aim or object, _to,
for the object, for, as, in, on_: on þearfe (_in his need, in his strait_),
1457; so, on hyra man-dryhtnes miclan þearfe, 2850; wrāðum on andan (_as a
terror to the foe_), 709; Hrōðgār maðelode him on
andsware
(_said to him in
reply_), 1841; betst beado-rinca wæs on bǣl gearu (_on the pyre ready_),
1110; wīg-heafolan bær frēan on fultum (_for help_), 2663; wearð on bīd
wrecen (_forced to wait_), 2963.
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Beowulf |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my
companions
was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The mist was white and the dream was grey
And both
contained
a human cry,
The burthen whereof was "Love",
And it filled both mist and dream with pain,
And the hills below and the skies above
Were touched and uttered it back again.
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Sidney Lanier |
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THE HARP
One
musician
is sure,
His wisdom will not fail,
He has not tasted wine impure,
Nor bent to passion frail.
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Emerson - Poems |
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'Do you see him, she cried, the old lecher dies;
Through his mouth the frosts of earth take flight;
Bind his lame feet, destroy his
squinting
sight,
He's the god of craters, king of the winter's ice!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The settled, more level, and fertile portion
of Canada East may be
described
rudely as a triangle, with its apex
slanting toward the northeast, about one hundred miles wide at its
base, and from two to three or even four hundred miles long, if you
reckon its narrow northeastern extremity; it being the immediate
valley of the St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Moins d'une lieue d'ici est Saint Apollinaire
In Classe,
basilique
connue des amateurs
De chapitaux d'acanthe que touraoie le vent.
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T.S. Eliot |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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